Post by Maricopa Community Forum on Nov 18, 2007 12:49:19 GMT -7
Something I had forgotten I saved from a few years ago when I was in a debate on another forum : (I did not write it. But I thought it was good food for thought)
God demands absolute obedience from his "creations." Failure to comply results in eternal damnation.
History has been plagued since it's beginning by tyrannical rulers who would torture and execute anyone who commits an act of dissention against them, but only God has banished anyone to eternal hell.
The actions of God, according to the Bible, are far and beyond the atrocities committed by any human tyrant. A close comparison can be drawn between God and the most infamous "tyrant" of our time - Saddam Hussein.
In 1988, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons to wipe out entire Kurdish towns for refusing to follow under his rule. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the same reasons - the cities were sovereign from God, so they perished.
Saddam Hussein also crushed the Shiite Muslims when they tried to revolt against him. They were arrested, killed, bombed, and tortured. When Satan and his followers tried to revolt against God, his response was to condemn them to eternity in Hell.
While Saddam's country and his people dwindled and decayed, Saddam lived snuggly in his palaces. While we suffer here on earth, God sits high and mighty on his throne in heaven, in paradise.
Not Hussein, not bin Laden, not even Hitler have committed the number of atrocities that God has.
It was God who condemned all mankind for the actions of Adam and Eve. It was God who gave us the ability to suffer. It was God who created Satan. With his infinite knowledge, God would have known Satan's eventual fate to wage war until the end of time, yet Satan was created anyways. Creation happened merely so God could play chess with himself and put the fate of his own universe up as the stakes.
God drowned nearly every living thing on the planet just for defying him - as if burning them alive for all eternity isn't punishment enough. God demands that we worship him and follow his word to the letter, and enforces this rule more strictly than any human who has ever ruled a nation.
How anyone can view God as just, or as a force of light, or as some great divine being, is far beyond me. A brutal sadistic tyrant is all the word "God" makes me think of... and no, I do not believe the tyrant exists.
Humans evolved into what they are today by a slim chance in a scientific process. Humans are free to rule their own world, their own lives, and no Holy Tyrant created them. No Holy Tyrant will judge them when their time comes to an end. God is the boogeyman, and nothing more.
God demands absolute obedience from his "creations." Failure to comply results in eternal damnation.
History has been plagued since it's beginning by tyrannical rulers who would torture and execute anyone who commits an act of dissention against them, but only God has banished anyone to eternal hell.
The actions of God, according to the Bible, are far and beyond the atrocities committed by any human tyrant. A close comparison can be drawn between God and the most infamous "tyrant" of our time - Saddam Hussein.
In 1988, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons to wipe out entire Kurdish towns for refusing to follow under his rule. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the same reasons - the cities were sovereign from God, so they perished.
Saddam Hussein also crushed the Shiite Muslims when they tried to revolt against him. They were arrested, killed, bombed, and tortured. When Satan and his followers tried to revolt against God, his response was to condemn them to eternity in Hell.
While Saddam's country and his people dwindled and decayed, Saddam lived snuggly in his palaces. While we suffer here on earth, God sits high and mighty on his throne in heaven, in paradise.
Not Hussein, not bin Laden, not even Hitler have committed the number of atrocities that God has.
It was God who condemned all mankind for the actions of Adam and Eve. It was God who gave us the ability to suffer. It was God who created Satan. With his infinite knowledge, God would have known Satan's eventual fate to wage war until the end of time, yet Satan was created anyways. Creation happened merely so God could play chess with himself and put the fate of his own universe up as the stakes.
God drowned nearly every living thing on the planet just for defying him - as if burning them alive for all eternity isn't punishment enough. God demands that we worship him and follow his word to the letter, and enforces this rule more strictly than any human who has ever ruled a nation.
How anyone can view God as just, or as a force of light, or as some great divine being, is far beyond me. A brutal sadistic tyrant is all the word "God" makes me think of... and no, I do not believe the tyrant exists.
Humans evolved into what they are today by a slim chance in a scientific process. Humans are free to rule their own world, their own lives, and no Holy Tyrant created them. No Holy Tyrant will judge them when their time comes to an end. God is the boogeyman, and nothing more.